Walter Renny
Walter Renny
About this item
Full title
Date
[187-]. Dated by costume of sitter, and media of work
Call Numbers
ML 1062
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Formats
Pictures and Photographs
Physical Description
Contents
1 photograph - oval image 55 x 42.5 cm - hand col. with oil paint
Other Descriptions
Level of description
Fonds
Access and use
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright
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Issue Copy
Digitised
Subjects
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Alternative Titles
Full title
Walter Renny
Notes
General note
Portrait is unsigned and undated. Family tradition says that Walter Renny was interested in colouring enlarged photographs with oil paint cf. ML 4/1959.
See also Artist unknown, Mary Ann Renny, ML 1063, Mitchell Library
Colour transparency digitised 1999
Digital order no:a928582
Attributions / Conjectures
PORTRAIT OF THE MAYOR - A striking half-likeness, life size, of his Worship the Mayor (Walter Renny, Esq.) is on view, at the studio of Mr. Pickering, the photographer, Brickfield-hill. It is apparently taken by the solar process, and carefully finished in oils. His Worship is represented in the costume of his office, the details of which are ac...
Contextual Information
Source
Presented by Mr R.T. Ward, 1989
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
ML 1062
Record Identifier
n7o7Qp3n
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/n7o7Qp3n
Other Identifiers
Reference code
52460
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